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11/26/2012

Unqualified public school teachers cheated on tests to get teaching jobs

It would be interesting to see if the teachers who cheated to get these jobs did as well career wise as those who didn't. How could 60 some teachers being admitted over a 15 year period of time effect only hundreds of students? Surely, the number must be in the many thousands. Take a high school teacher. Even if the person only had three classes with 20 each per semester, that would come to a minimum of 120 students per year. Just 10 high school teachers for only one year would be over 1,200 students. Without trying very hard it seems as if you would easily be in the 5-digit range. From Fox News:

Authorities say the scheme affected hundreds -- if not thousands -- of public school students who ended up being taught by unqualified instructors.

Mumford faces more than 60 fraud and conspiracy charges that claim he created fake driver's licenses with the information of a teacher or an aspiring teacher and attached the photograph of a test-taker.. . .

The hired-test takers went to testing centers, showed the proctor the fake license, and passed the certification exam, prosecutors say. Then, the aspiring teacher used the test score to secure a job with a public school district, the indictment alleges. . . .